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17 December 2002
 

At the tomb of the IUnknown Interface. As COM is dragged kicking and screaming towards the airlock, a strangely dry-eyed COM warrior celebrates its demise. [sellsbrothers.com: Windows Developer News]

Indeed, it was fine in principle but lost it somewhere in the implementation. ... IMHO, the major contribution Java made to Windows programming; there is a better way to do this (the MS teams *loved* Java, tragically Sun and MS couldn't love each other so now we get .NET which is maybe better than Java, or maybe worse - we still seem to be waiting for a real big .NET application). Anyways...

Rebodged (sic) interfaces with names ending in "2."

and for server side scriptx users:

DCOM security, or "I can sometimes make it work if I log on everywhere as Admin and start a copy of the EXE on the remote."

 


posted at: 4:11:49 PM  

On a providers page, here's a list of 36 survey systems. All of these seem to be online (web based): SurveyMonkey
posted at: 8:20:24 AM  


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